
@randy I just don't want to even deal with the possibility. I've already been annoyed that curators merge profiles of mine before I even had the chance to look at a proposed merge. I can't imagine the general user base will be any better. Not to mention I don't trust geni to let me know if an edit has been made on a profile I manage. I might trust geni if they had solicited feedback ahead of time, but they did not.
Okay, I get that... but it's no harder to check each one's Follow-status as it is to go in and make each one private...
Philip! Please forgive me for saying so, but you sound like me when I'm just feeling frustrated and fed-up - after awhile I start looking for reasons to say no instead of yes! ;)
I have to remind myself that it's just so human to feel that way - but in the end, it doesn't help me. Saying yes (trusting) usually works better for me. Of course, as always, YMMV!
Please don't insult me with the psychoanalysis.
And no, it's much easier to find the public profiles and make them private. Pull up lists, switch to "managed by me" and filter on status = public, then start clicking on "make profile private". Even then it took me 30 minutes to go through 63 pages of profiles and make 200 of them private.
There is no way to filter on "followed status" and there is no way to follow/unfollow a profile from the list. You have to open and close every profile to see and edit the follow status.
Angus, thank you. As I understand you, if I want to collaborate with you on one of your profiles, I have to go to YOUR profile to make that request. I no longer do it from the profile on which I want to collaborate. Further, the profile name and ID on which I wish to collaborate is no longer automatically included in that message to you. Therefore, to explain my request to collaborate, I have to manually include this information in my request to you. That's quite an improvement. Thank you, Geni.
As I said before, THIS IS A HUGE MISTAKE.
John Tripp, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island This is one of the profiles in question. I don't see any locks but I'm a curator. It's public and from the 1600s.
I like being able to edit public profiles but don't understand WHY the fields that are blocked are: 1) relationship, 2.) cause of death, and 3.) place of burial.....why doesn't the profile just say: Blocked by curator" and be done with it.....
Sorry to sound so confused but I have, since VERY soon after starting manually downloading my material...been a stickler for designating the order of marriages......it also, NOW, cuts down hugely on the 'tree matches' that pop up......and don't uderstand WHY this field would be locked out.
I have been encountering the locks lately....and even sent the URL to a curator...who CAN'T see the block....
Is there any reason THESE fields are locked? Can edit where and when died but not cause and burial???
Angus, John Tripp, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island shows a lock icon on the cause of death and burial location fields when you go into it for editing...
Okay, I'm confused. When I go in to the MPs for John Tripp and his wife which Angus so graciously mastered, I see that nothing is locked. Furthermore, the fields that Fay mentioned as having been locked are the fields which cannot be locked.
I did hunt zombies around John Tripp first then when Fay and I started talking. I didn't unlock anything and this user only joined May 27, 2011.
https://picasaweb.google.com/angus.woodsalomon/GeniJohnTripp?authke...
This is what I see when I Master the profile and go into edit.
No locks are locked
Angus, when I click on your link, see across from all fields a little box; to the right of that, see what looks like tea bag except for all but the Fields they say are locked (plus Display Name). Is this what you are seeing? (Cannot see enough to tell what the "tea bags" are -- are they locks?)
When they un-MP a profile - do they remove all locks -- or switch lock-status on the Fields -- which would result in those Fields that hadn't been locked becoming locked, those that were locked becoming unlocked?